GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENCOUNTRY-PROFILEGUATEMALAMEASURESNATIONAL COORDINATING OFFICE FOR THE PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BUDGET INCREMENT
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National Coordinating Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Violence against Women Budget Increment
Type of Measure
Budgets > Government allocation
Form of Violence
Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence; Violence against women and girls
Year
2004
Brief Description

The National Coordinating Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Violence against Women (CONAPREVI), has been strengthened technically and financially by means of a 700-per-cent increase in its budget – from Q (Quetzales) 187,650.00 in 2004 to Q 1,703,100.00 in 2007. The increase has enabled it to increase its staff, so that it now has a legal adviser and specific advisers for dealing with the problem of violence against women, in keeping with the strategic areas of the National Plan for the Prevention and Eradication of Domestic Violence and Violence against Women (PLANOVI) 2004-2014. The budget approved for 2008 is Q2.3 million.

Source of Information
CEDAW/C/GUA/7 paras. 135, 167, 265, 487-488; A/HRC/WG.6/14/GTM/1, para. 42.
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